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UC Berkeley |

UC Berkeley alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

Ruvkun obtained his B.A. in biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1973.

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A person smiling and holding a small tin Egyptian coffin
UC Irvine |

Bringing ancient Egypt to life

A professor uses pop culture to demystify pharaohs, pyramids and more.
Viet Thanh Nguyen reading a paper in the library as a student at UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley |

Q&A with Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ‘The Sympathizer’ reflects on libraries, UC Berkeley and the class that ‘radicalized’ him.
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UCLA |

Persistent gaps for Black Californians would take over 248 years to close

The State of Black California 2024 report analyzes two decades of socioeconomic status data.
An image of a face with acne. Next to it is a microscopic view of Cutibacterium acnes. Below it are the words "acne vaccine"
UC Newsroom |

A vaccine for acne? UC discovery shows promise

A team at UC San Diego pinpointed one of the condition's microbial culprits and are exploring how to fight it.
A North Atlantic right whale and her calf seen from a drone in the ocean
UC Santa Barbara |

Cargo ship monitor Whale Safe heads east to help a new endangered whale

There are only about 350 North Atlantic right whales left on Earth — but they are about to get some much-needed help from UC Santa Barbara scientists.
In the front of the photo, a man touches an egghead (a humorous but blank-looking human face shaped like an egg) which is faced down on a concrete open book; in the back of the photo, a line of people outside a museum at night
UC Davis |

The lasting legacy of Arneson’s Eggheads

The famed sculptures, the last of which was installed 30 years ago this year, are being commemorated with events marking 2024 as the Year of the Eggheads.
Rich Lyons, a white man with white hair and a white beard, smiling in a suit with a Berkeley bears tie, on campus
UC Berkeley |

Rich Lyons, longtime campus business, innovation leader, will be UC Berkeley's next chancellor

With decades of experience on campus, Lyons — the former dean of the Haas School of Business — will take over from outgoing Chancellor Carol Christ on July 1.
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UC San Francisco |

App may pave way to treatments for no. 1 dementia in under-60s

UCSF-led research shows smartphone cognitive testing is comparable to gold-standard methods and may detect FTD in gene carriers before symptoms start.
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UC Santa Cruz |

First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe

UC Santa Cruz, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab contribute to Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument collaboration.
Trevor Auldridge-Reveles sits in a concrete and steel staircase, leaning elbows on legs, smiling
UC Santa Barbara |

Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A sociologist looks for answers.

Why do kids outperform their parents in this rural California town? A UC Santa Barbara sociologist looks for answers.
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UC Newsroom |

Young UC scientists selected as fellows to prestigious Nobel laureate meeting

27 highly accomplished young scientists were awarded the opportunity to join Nobel laureates from around the globe at the 2024 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Germany.
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UC Merced |

New canal project expands on UC Merced solar research

A new project to place solar panels on the water in the Delta-Mendota Canal, part of a $19 million investment through President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, was announced by the Department of the Interior April 4.